mysql away after sending email

Hello there,

I'm having a strange issue with my app that was built with rails 2.2.2:

- I have a form where one employee can send a price quote to a client; - the action just mark the quote as 'sent' on the database and deliver the email; - the email delivery is taking too long, about 45 second; - after that the next action will show a 500 error; - checking the logs I found it a mysql away error;

since I'm not delivering multiples emails and the client is waiting for it's quote I see no reason for sending the email later, also, everything was working fine before this smpt slowness...

does anyboby have any advice here?

thanks a lot!

Luciano